brainsick

Example Sentences

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Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

And this man, at once unprincipled and brainsick, had in his keeping the understanding and the conscience of the unhappy Monmouth.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold

And then again he strove to put that from him, saying that what he had seen was but meet for one brainsick, and a dreamer of dreams. 

From Wood Beyond the World by Morris, William

To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson